Broken Compassionate and Deperate
##### 9/27
Here are some words God is impressing upon me:

HOPE
COMPASSION
HARVEST
VISION
DESPERATION

I don't have it all worked out yet; but in foggy rough tems:

Compassion brings power
When we care, God will move

Vision brings compassion.
When we can see, we will care

Hope brings Harvest
When we can stand in faith and hope with and for the hopeless, God can harvest souls. We BECOME the hope (through Christ) for the ones with no hope.

When we get deperate for God to move in our lives, God breaks our heart. But He doesn't leave it broken. He gives us hope to give to the hopeless.

I can't stop the inconvenient presence of God in my life making me desperate for the souls of the forgotten.

I think I'm ruined.

I've been praying that God would pour me out like a drink offering. I don't even know what it means. I just find myself praying it. I'm a little frightened to study it out. It doesn't sound pleasant.

##### 9/29
A few more thoughts (starting to congeal a little)

Luke 20: 17-18
Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."


This story is related in Matthew also. I chose the version in Luke, because some manuscripts of Matthew don't have the 'broken/crushed' verse in them. Luke doesn't bear such a footnote.

Brokeness before God. Broken on the stone that is Jesus.

I have been impressed to pray for brokeness. I ask God to break me. Break me. Empty me of myself (I think that's the context of the drink offering).

I sense that being broken before God is the key to compassion. Compassion is the key to desperation (not desperate in the sense of hopeless, but depserate in the sense of having no higher priority, desperate in the sense of contending without thought of consequence; desperate in the sense of not being refused).

Depseration is the key to miracles.

Miracles bring harvest.

Broken Compassionate and Deperate. In context, that's the bumper sticker I want to sum up my life.

Break me on the Rock of Christ. Break me.

Let me be a harvester of souls.

Between broken or crushed I choose broken
Between power and compassion I choose compassion
Between comfortable and effective I choose effective
Between my will and God's will I choose God's will
Between my heart and God's heart I choose God's heart

Break me on the Rock of Christ. Break me.

I fall on the stone of Christ.  ¶ 5:11 PM 0 comments